#kinship — Public Fediverse posts
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Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page. No email warned me. Nothing in my account records the change. Six family memorials, five of them sponsored with my own money in the weeks after my mother died, and my name has been stripped from every one. The site that once made me beg for custody of my own dead has taken that custody back, in silence, and left me to discover the loss the way you discover a missing wallet: by reaching for something that should be there. […] -
📑 A new paper by CPC-CG members introduces the first method that can predict how many relatives of any kind a person is likely to have at different points in their life, and how likely each outcome is:
https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/54/9#demography #kinship #mathematicaldemography #populationstudies #lifeCourse #mortality #fertility #probability #matrixalgebra #combinatorics #convolution #kin #familyStructure #analyticModel #populationResearch #population #family #familystructures #demographicforecasting
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#Meghalaya is a #MatrilinealSociety . In terms of #ancestral #descent , the #kinship system is #traced through the #maternal instead of paternal line, unlike other parts of the world.
#India is largely a #patrilineal country, but this state of the North East differs.
The #culture of Meghalaya brings to its people, a #different #lifestyle where #lineage & #inheritance are traced through #women w/ children being part of the #mother ’s kinship group...
https://themeghalayan.com/reflecting-on-matriliny/